An Entrepreneur op-ed argues that small business owners typically leave tax planning until December or April, missing chances to adjust course while the fiscal year is still open. It outlines four mid-year moves—setting owner salary deliberately, reviewing entity structure, coordinating retirement contributions, and using strategies like the qualified business income deduction and the Augusta Rule—that can meaningfully cut a founder's tax bill if done properly and documented.
Fashion startup Atorie has closed a $9.5 million seed round backed by a16z speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew. The company sells handbags and apparel made from the same materials and in the same factories as luxury brands like Prada, but at a fraction of the retail price. Founder Redouane Ramdani, previously of Snipfeed, says the products aren't dupes but genuine goods sourced directly from luxury manufacturers who now have excess capacity.
Fashion startup Atoire has closed a $9.5 million seed round backed by a16z Speedrun, Night Capital, and Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew. The company sells handbags and apparel made from the same materials and in the same factories as high-end luxury brands, but at a fraction of the price by working directly with manufacturers rather than through traditional brand markups. Founder Redouane Ramdani, previously behind Snipfeed, says the goods are not dupes but genuine products from the same supply chains as names like Prada and Louis Vuitton.
Chinese chipmaker YMTC has told investors it intends to become the world's biggest NAND flash producer by the end of 2027, surpassing Samsung and SK hynix. The Wuhan-based firm recently filed to raise 33 billion yuan ($4.9 billion) on Shanghai's STAR Market, with most funds going toward upgrading production lines and expanding research and development.
A writer describes taking a psychiatrist-recommended online ADHD test that resembled an old Flash game, requiring him to press spacebar whenever a card with three red hearts appeared amid mounting visual and audio distractions. Curious about how the test worked, he used browser DevTools to capture the page's source code and network requests during the exam.
Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve's new chair, has broken from his predecessors by declining to offer clear signals about future interest rate moves, even as inflation remains elevated. At his most recent press conference he repeatedly avoided answering whether the Fed would raise rates if inflation persists, leaving investors and economists uncertain about his approach. He is expected to address these concerns in a closely watched speech at the Fed's Jackson Hole symposium.
Best Buy is currently selling an HP laptop at nearly half its normal price, with the deal including a low-cost television as an add-on. The offer is highlighted as a notable value pick based on comparison shopping and retailer listings rather than a limited flash sale detail specified in the report.
After burning through a Claude usage quota in just 10 minutes, a developer built 'tare,' a skill that lets Claude Code analyze its own local request logs to explain where tokens are going. Users install it with a single command and then ask plain-English questions about spikes in usage, expensive files, or which projects and models are draining their quota fastest.
Following news that two unvaccinated people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania—including a newborn—died of measles, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a series of anti-vaccine claims on social media, attacking the MMR vaccine and Governor Josh Shapiro. He also suggested, citing a local Republican commissioner's disputed claim, that the deaths might have been fabricated by the governor's staff. These are the first measles deaths in Pennsylvania in 35 years and the first in the US in 2026, amid a national outbreak that has reached nearly 2,800 cases, the worst since 1991.
CrowdStrike reported record net-new annual recurring revenue of $333 million for its fiscal Q2, up 51% year-over-year and $45 million above guidance, driven by AI-related demand. The company also raised its full-year revenue growth forecast, citing a record pipeline, sending shares up more than 17% and boosting rival Palo Alto Networks by over 10%.
Citing eight unnamed sources, POLITICO reports the Trump administration is considering a second wave of semiconductor tariffs that would hit finished products like laptops, gaming consoles, and data center servers, not just chips themselves. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick reportedly favors tying duty-free chip import limits to each company's committed U.S. manufacturing output, and officials have signaled that exemptions granted under January's Proclamation 11002 for data centers, startups, and consumer devices might not survive into this next phase.
A technical blog post explains why three-term recurrence relations used to compute Bessel functions can fail depending on direction and function type. Forward recurrence works for second-kind Bessel functions but not first-kind, while reverse recurrence works for first-kind but not second-kind functions.
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